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Connie Kilpatrick lives on Lake Fork in East Texas and is the owner of Lake Fork Tackle Repair. Connie's shop has a world wide reputation for excellent quality and customer service in the field of rod and reel repair. Lake Fork Tackle Repair is an authorized service center for major brands of fishing reels and has been a Zebco Warranty Center; however, today Lake Fork Tackle Repair is the only Service Center dedicated to Shimano Freshwater baitcasters exclusively. Thru the years, she has coached many anglers with fishing reel problems and has produced a very successful video," Fishing Reel Maintenance". It is the first and only video on the market today for anglers to learn how to take care of their fishing reels.  This video has de-mystified the reel maintenance process and gives anglers the confidence to be very successful at this task without depending on others. Lake Fork Tackle Repair is the only facility to offer on site training for anglers to learn how to repair their reels as well as prospective entrepreneurs to learn the exciting business of rod and reel repair.

Home State:  Texas
Home Lake:  Lake Fork
Days on the Water: 200
Years fishing experience: 25

She and her husband, Tommy are Texas Instruments/Raytheon retirees and live on Lake Fork with their two pets, Mike, the Lab and Charger, the Yorkie. They spend leisure time fishing, traveling and conducting training classes and seminars thru out the United States representing Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits and Lake Fork Tackle Repair.

Special Accomplishments
1 2005 Video of the year Award presented by Canada Outdoors Magazine.
2  IGFA (International Game and Fish Association) requested copy of video for Library and Museum in Florida.
3 Featured on TNN, Outdoors USA.

Endorsements
1 Ray Sasser: The Kilpatrick's run a successful tackle repair business as well as teaching their skills to apprentices.
2 Craig Lamb of BASS Times: Kilpatricks have two decades of experience in fishing tackle repair and they're able to "straighten out the learning curve" for other fishermen when it comes to reel repair and maintenance.
3 Kathy Magers of ESPN: Definitely a cost savings for anglers.
4 Bill Kenny:  I learned more in Connie and Tommy's training class than I learned in a lot of my graduate classes.  Bill is the father of FLW Pro, J. T. Kenny.
5 Kelly Denham: I've used Lake Fork Tackle Repair on more than one occasion and every time they have far exceeded my expectations. I have their video and do most of my routine maintenance myself, but anytime a reel goes haywire I don't hesitate to send it to Connie and Tommy.
6 Dennis Shew: Have watched the first five minutes of video and the advice is so simple and obvious. I could slap myself in the face.

Numerous Radio Interviews including
7  Eye on the Outdoors with  Chris Vogel in Missouri
8 National Bass Fishing Show  with Capt. Steve Chaconas in Virginia
9 Outdoor Trails with Julie Schuster in Nashville, Tenn.

Associations:
IGFA-International Game Fish Association 
TOWA- Texas Outdoors Writers Association
Lake Fork Water Supply Board Member

Sponsors:
Bassfishinghomepage.com.
Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, 
JNProductions, 
Kit Lueg Graphics, 
Loomis Lodge and Guide Service

Connie Kilpatrick